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Aiding discovery of program content by providing deeplinks into most interesting moments via social media

US9237386B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-9237386-B2
Application numberUS-201213601722-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateAug 31, 2012
Priority dateAug 31, 2012
Publication dateJan 12, 2016
Grant dateJan 12, 2016

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A computerized method, system for, and computer-readable medium operable to: retrieve program details data about at least one media program. Retrieve social media posts involving the at least one media program. Match the retrieved program details data with the retrieved social media posts to find matching locations. Store time offset data corresponding to the matched locations within the at least one media program into at least one micropost. Rank the at least one media program by the number of microposts corresponding to the at least one media program. Present the at least one media program, each of the at least one media program with at least one micropost, wherein the at least one micropost comprises a link to the original social media page hosting the social media post and a video deeplink that plays a time off-set video, the time off-set video starting from the stored time offset data.

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What is claimed is: 1. A computerized method, comprising: retrieving, via a computing device, program details data about at least one media program, wherein the program details data comprises subtitle data for the at least one media program; retrieving, via the computing device, social media posts involving the at least one media program, wherein each social media post includes text data; comparing, via the computing device, the subtitle data with the text data from each of th…

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What does patent US9237386B2 cover?
A computerized method, system for, and computer-readable medium operable to: retrieve program details data about at least one media program. Retrieve social media posts involving the at least one media program. Match the retrieved program details data with the retrieved social media posts to find matching locations. Store time offset data corresponding to the matched locations within the at lea…
Who is the assignee on this patent?
Oztaskent Ant, Zafirovski Gjokica, Google Inc
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification H04N21/812. Mapped technology areas include Electricity.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Jan 12 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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